The Celestial Ganga
1.
Faintly flows the celestial Ganga
in the monsoon sky.
Who are you? A stream
of dust, or imagination?
Countless are the sands
on your bank.
2.
A splinter from a blazing granule,
a gem in fondness;
Here we, the nested worms,
look at you with breath suspended;
Waves of wonder roll
in your waterways.
3.
Our ages breathless
swam in the waves;
On wings of imagination
you flow, transcending knowledge;
On which hillside were you born,
your melody echoes from the ocean, though?
4.
Who will sport this glowing cracker?
In what fondness?
Whose blue mind’s sparking is it?
A bird of light flapping up
its wings? Like feelings,
in the faint fog, welling?
5
Proximal foamy
in no time,
full dazzling diamonds round
widen up my eyes!
Hearts stop
on your sandy banks.
6
Is someone pulsating today
with ripples of emotion?
O poetry of eternity!
O stream of winking suns
waving sinuous you flow
in the blue heavens.
7
Our hearts connect
in the fountain!
In me emotions rage,
hers scatter in heaven;
In fondness meet
eternity’s two ends!
Translated by: Shreedhar Lohani